Which book by Ahdaf Soueif traces dual love stories, set a century apart in Egypt, both featuring western women?
Still on love stories, what's the title of Diana Abu-Jaber's novel, set in the US, in which Sirine is 39, half-Iraqi and half-American, working as a cook in a Middle Eastern restaurant in Los Angeles, and in which she falls for Hanif, a dashing professor at the local university?
Shortlisted for the 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, who wrote Welcome To Paradise , which tells the fictional stories of a group of individuals forming part of the traffic in illegal immigrants across the Straits of Gibraltar?
What's the title of Rawi Hage's 2006 debut novel, a moving story of two young men coming of age in war-torn Beirut - one obsessed with leaving the city, and one living a life of violence and crime?
They Die Strangers was the first book by the distinguished writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English. The stories are filled with the nostalgia and bitterness of exiles like himself, caught between cultures by the displacements of civil war or labour migration. What nationality is Abdul-Wali?
Ghazi Algosaibi has written both poetry and novels, including A Love Story and Seven . Also a politician, what post does he currently hold in the Saudi Arabian government?
What was the title of the novel by Hanan Al-Shaykh, which offered a refreshing window into the hidden Arab culture thriving in the heart of London?
Who is the author of Children of the Waters , a collection of poignant pieces portraying lives bounded by Egypt's waters - the Canal, the Nile, and the Mediterranean?
Which Saudi Arabian writer has lived under the shadow of four fatwas since publishing a trilogy of novels (Adama , Shumaisi , and Karadib ) which aimed to tackle the three taboos of religion, politics and sex?
What's the title of Emile Habiby's novel, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, a luckless fool whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, candor and cowardice?
